Gerrit De Vynck

San Francisco

Tech reporter covering Google, algorithms and artificial intelligence

Education: Carleton University, BA in Journalism and Global Politics

Gerrit De Vynck is a tech reporter for The Washington Post. He writes about Google and the algorithms that increasingly shape society. De Vynck also helps lead The Post's coverage of ransomware and misinformation. He previously covered tech for seven years at Bloomberg News.
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Google is changing the way we search with AI. It could upend the web.

Google executives took the IO stage to tout their AI search tool, saying it will directly generate answers to some queries, a move publishers and bloggers dread.

May 10, 2023

Google’s behind in AI. Its big event this week could change that.

Google is rushing to regain its lead in the AI arms race. The company's annual I/O conference will be a key test for the tech giant.

May 9, 2023

Google shared AI knowledge with the world — until ChatGPT caught up

Google's research teams helped create the AI revolution. Now executives want to make sure the company takes advantage of that knowledge first.

May 5, 2023

The man who unleashed AI on an unsuspecting Silicon Valley

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took the artificial intelligence company from nonprofit to kingmaker. Not everyone is happy with him.

April 9, 2023

Google to cut some of its perks to cut costs amid AI race

Google is famous for its free food and bountiful perks. After laying off thousands of workers, some of those perks are being cut as the company trims costs.

March 31, 2023

As AI booms, tech firms are laying off their ethicists

Google, Twitch and Microsoft are among the technology companies that are cutting their ethical AI teams. Will these cuts pay off?

March 30, 2023

Elon Musk and a handful of AI leaders ask for ‘pause’ on the tech

Twitter CEO Elon Musk, veteran AI computer scientist Yoshua Bengio and Emad Mostaque, the CEO of fast-growing startup Stability AI, all signed the letter, along with around 1,000 other members of the business, academic and tech worlds.

March 29, 2023

Microsoft’s latest use for GPT4: Stopping hackers

Microsoft has been putting generative AI into many of its products. Now it's adding cybersecurity tools to the list.

March 28, 2023

Google’s catch-up game on AI continues with Bard launch

Google is making its chatbot Bard available to the public, weeks after Microsoft launched its own.

March 21, 2023

Trump returns to YouTube and Facebook for the first time since 2021

The video sharing service said it weighed the “continued risk of real-world violence” and Trump’s entrance into the 2024 presidential election.

March 17, 2023